-----Original Message----- From: Michael Neill <mneill@csc.cc.il.us> To: 'ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com' <ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, April 09, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} German Lutheran Church Hello. There was a German Lutheran Church in Warsaw as well, exact name eludes me at present (Concordia?)--but my ancestors attended there in the late 1800s. The present Lutheran Church in Carthage was originally a "German" congregation as well and included many Carthage College faculty among its early members. I think it was originally named Trinity English Evagelical Church but would not swear to it (I think that's what's written in the stained glass above one of the doors). So technically it might not qualify as "German" based upon its name, but many members were of German extraction. I attended this church as a child. There was another Lutheran church in Carthage, the Zion Lutheran Church. The services of this congregation were in German; the church disbanded ca. 1921 and the members mostly joined the Trinity Lutheran Church. The former building is now the Veterans of Foreign War hall (across from the present "dime store"--the old "super value"). My Habben and Fecht families attended this church. There was a "German" Lutheran congregation in Tioga, in the southern part of the county. It is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The vast majority of the early members were German. My paternal grandmother was baptized in this church and her family attended it from 1853? until 1920 or so. There was another German congretation near Sutter and I'm not certain if it started out Lutheran or not. It is now Sutter Salem church (speaking from memory on this one). None of my ancestors attended this church. There was ANOTHER German Lutheran Congregation near Bentley. Members of this church were German, predominantly Ostfriesen in origin. It was founded in the 1870s or so. My great-great-grandfather was on the board and several of my ancestors attended this church also and I have six ancestors buried in the church cemetery. Hope this helps. Michael Neill whose Irish surname hides the fact that he is 5/8th "German"